Most Viewed Indian Songs on YouTube

About this ranking: where the views come from

“Hanuman Chalisa” by Hariharan leads this ranking with 5,639,963,530 views, 3.77 billion ahead of “Lehanga” by Jass Manak. This page tracks 6,025 uploads in all — Indian song uploads across every language, Punjabi included — worth 491.06 billion views between them, 1,213 of which have passed 100 million.

• Number one
  Hanuman Chalisa — Hariharan5,639,963,530 views, as of 20 August 2026
• Gap to number two
  3.77 billion views (202% clear)Second place is “Lehanga” by Jass Manak on 1,866,369,376 views.
• Uploads ranked here
  6,025 uploadsSpread across 1,897 distinct artist credit lines, covering Indian song uploads across every language, Punjabi included.
• Past 100 million views
  1,213 of 6,02546 of those have gone past 1 billion.
• Top 50 share
  14% of all views in this ranking67.55 billion views out of 491.06 billion across all 6,025 uploads.
• Recent versus catalogue
  0 of the top 50 were released in 2024 or laterThe newest entry in the top 50 is “Jhoome Jo Pathaan” by Arijit Singh, Sukriti Kakkar, from December 2022.
• Last refreshed
  20 August 2026, 18:30 (server time)Read from the YouTube Data API by the site's daily update job.
• Language mix at the top
  Hindi (67), Punjabi (27), Other (6)3 different language tags appear across the top 100. Counts are the tag recorded against each upload, not a guess from the title.
• Punjabi inside this ranking
  27 of the top 100 are tagged PunjabiWorth 27.82 billion views between them. This board is deliberately not language-filtered, so Punjabi releases compete here against every other Indian-language upload we track.

How this data is collected

Every figure in the table above is read from the official YouTube Data API — the same counter YouTube prints under the video itself. Nothing is scraped from another website, and no number here is an estimate, a projection or a chart position we assigned.

A scheduled job on our server re-reads the whole catalogue once a day, at 18:30 server time, and writes the new totals straight into the table you are reading. The most recent successful refresh for this ranking finished on 20 August 2026, 18:30.

View counts are YouTube's own public totals, so they count plays and not listeners: repeat plays by the same person are included, which is part of why long-running Punjabi hits keep climbing years after release.

Each upload is tracked as its own row. An official video, a lyric video and a live performance of the same song are three separate uploads with three separate counters, so the same title can legitimately appear more than once in the ranking — the numbers are never merged, because YouTube does not merge them.

This board is the widest one on the site: every tracked upload with a view count, in any Indian language, with the Punjabi releases included rather than split out.

Songs are added when we find them on an official artist or record-label channel. We embed YouTube's player and host no audio or video files ourselves. A total can also fall or vanish: if an upload is deleted or set to private on YouTube its counter stops, and the row leaves this ranking at the next refresh.

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